YouTuber Wins Attorneys’ Fees in Clinton Party Copyright Case

YouTube personality Carl Benjamin—known on the platform as Sargon of Akkad—won attorneys’ fees in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday after successfully defending a copyright suit over his mocking of a video taken at Hillary Clinton’s election night party.

Comedian Akilah Hughes’ lawsuit was objectively unreasonable and meant to “inflict financial harm on Benjamin and to raise her own profile in the process,” the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York said.

Hughes attended the Clinton campaign’s election night party in Manhattan in 2016 and posted a 10-minute video of party footage and commentary to YouTube called “We ...